Tradition Records • Discography

Patrick Clancy, with the assistance of brothers Tom and Liam and the financial support of Diane Hamilton, a member of the Guggenheim family and active in the Country Dance and Song Society, initiated Tradition Records in 1956 in New York City. Kenny Goldstein was instrumental in producing and recording many of the early albums. During 1960-61, Charlie Rothschild took over the business side of Tradition, while Patrick Clancy continued to oversee production. Having issued over 45 albums, Clancy sold the company to Bernard Solomon at Everest Records in 1966. Everest, now Legacy International, licensed the masters to Rykodiscs in the mid-1990's, which released much of the label on CDs, while Legacy International also continued to issue various Tradition albums into 2002.

Ronald D. Cohen
Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound

1956
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1957-1959
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1960 & 1961
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Tradition/Everest, etc.

Countess Cathleen (1956, USA) w/Tom and Liam Clancy	Through Bushes And Briars (Songs From The British Isles) (1956, USA) Isla Cameron	Songs of Israel and Many Lands (1956, USA) Hillel and Aviva	A Ballad Singer's Choice (1956, USA) Ed McCurdy
A Ballad Singer's Choice (1956, USA) Ed McCurdy	The Lark In The Morning (1956, USA) various - w/Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy	Whaling And Sailing Songs From the Days of Moby Dick (1956, USA) Paul Clayton	Rising Of The Moon (1956, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem
Instrumental Music of the Southern Appalachians (1956, USA) [various artists]	The Real Flamenco (1956, USA) El Niño De Ronda	Sings American and English Folk Songs and Ballads (1956, USA) John Langstaff	Odetta sings Ballads and Blues (1956, USA) Odetta
American Folk Tales and Songs (1956, USA) Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton	Elizabethan Songs (1956, USA) Norman Notley, David Brynley and Paul Wolfe.	The Bonny Bunch of Roses (1956, USA) Seamus Ennis	Laughing America (1956, USA) Oscar Brand
Classic Scots Ballads (1956, USA) Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger	The Foggy Dew and other Traditional English Love Songs (1956, USA) A. L. Lloyd	Cockney Music Hall Songs & Recitations (1956, USA) Colyn Davies	Bowling Green and other Folk Songs … (1956, USA) Irene and Ellen Kossoy

1956
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1957-1959
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1960 & 1961
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Tradition/Everest, etc.

Come and Sit by my Side (1957, USA) Glenn Yarbrough	Negro Prison Songs (1957, USA) … recorded by Alan Lomax	Pie in the Sky (1957, USA) Oscar Brand	Pie in the Sky (1957, USA) Oscar Brand
I Wonder as I Wander (1957, USA) John Jacob-Niles	Songs of Ireland (1957, USA) Mary O'Hara	Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957, USA) Odetta	Blow Boys Blow — Songs of the Sea (1957, USA) Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd
Children's Songs (1958, USA) Ed McCurdy	I Am The Wee Falorie Man — Folk Songs of Ireland: 1958, USA) David Hammond	Texas Folk Songs (1958, USA) Alan Lomax	Music and Song of Italy (1958, USA) Recorded by Alan Lomax & Diego Carpitella
Carols of All Seasons (1959, USA) Jean Ritchie	Come Fill Your Glass With Us (1959, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Come all ye fair and tender ladies (1959, USA) Robin Roberts	Rising Of The Moon (1959, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem

1956
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1957-1959
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1960 & 1961
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Tradition/Everest, etc.

So Early In The Morning (1960, USA) Peg & Bobby Clancy	Country Blues (1960, USA) Lightnin' Hopkins	An Evening with John Jacob-Niles (1960, USA) John Jacob-Niles	Songs of Greece (1960, USA) Theodore Alevizos
Autobiography in Blues (1960, USA) Lightnin' Hopkins	Tradition Folk Sampler (1960, USA) [various artists]	The Folk Song Tradition (1960, USA) [various artists]	The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1961, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem
Carolyn Hester (1961, USA) Carolyn Hester	Songs of Tommy Makem (1961, USA) Tommy Makem	Songs from Ireland (1961, USA) Peg & Bobby Clancy	The Ballads of John Jacob-Niles (1961, USA) John Jacob-Niles
Heather and Glen (1961, USA) [various artists]	Rising of the Moon (1961, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem

1956
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1957-1959
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1960 & 1961
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Tradition/Everest, etc.

Songs of Israel and Many Lands (1967, USA) Hillel and Aviva	A Ballad Singer's Choice (1967, USA) Ed McCurdy	The Lark In The Morning (1967, USA) various	Rising of the Moon (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem
Elizabethan Songs (1967, USA) Norman Notley, David Brynley and Paul Wolfe.	Songs of Ireland (1967, USA) Mary O'Hara	Come Fill Your Glass With Us (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Country Blues (1967, USA) Lightnin' Hopkins
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Songs of Tommy Makem (1967, USA) Tommy Makem	Songs from Ireland (1967, USA) Peg & Bobby Clancy	Heather and Glen (1967, USA) [various artists]
The Best of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	The Manchester Angel (1967, USA) Ewan MacColl	At Home with the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem and their families (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem, et al.	Irish Folk Airs: The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem and their families (1967, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem, et al.
Irish Drinking Songs (1969, USA)	The Rising of the Moon and others - Irish Songs of Rebellion (1967, UK)	It's Tommy Himself (1967, UK) Tommy Makem	Raise Your Glasses with the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1967, IRL)
Fine Boys, You Are (1967, UK)	The Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem with their Families (1968, UK) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem, et al.	The Girls Won't Leave the Boys Alone (1968, UK) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Irish Songs of Rebellion (1969, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem
The Best Of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (1970, UK) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	The Best of the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (1973, USA) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Boulavogue (1973, UK) Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem	Traditional Songs of Ireland (1976, USA) Peg & Bobby Clancy
The Best of the Dubliners (1980, USA) The Dubliners	The Lark In The Morning (1996, USA) various	Songs of Tommy Makem — Re-mastered Expanded Edition (2007, USA) Tommy Makem